# The Contributor License Agreement

Tencent defines the legal status of the contributed code in a *Contributor License Agreement* (CLA).

Only original source code from CLA signatories can be accepted into TARS. 

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## What am I agreeing to? 

This CLA allows either an individual or an entity (the "**Corporation**") to Submit Contributions to Tencent, to authorize Contributions Submitted by its employees or agents to Tencent (in the case of a Corporation), and to grant copyright and patent licenses thereto. 

It is important to read and understand this legal agreement.



## How do I sign?

1. Create a pull request, the system will remind you the CLA is not signed yet. Click the url. You will recive an email at the same time. 

![](docs/images/CLA1.png)


2. Click to sign in with Github to agree.

![](docs/images/CLA2.png)


3. That's it, for real!

![](docs/images/CLA3.png)



## Ensure your Github e-mail address matches address used to sign CLA

Your Github email address **must match** the same address you use when signing the CLA. Github has [documentation](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-your-commit-email-address-on-github/) on setting email addresses.

You must also set your [git e-mail](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-your-email-in-git) to match this e-mail address as well.

If you've already submitted a PR you can correct your user.name and user.email and then use use `git commit --amend --reset-author` and then `git push --force` to correct the PR.